Thread: Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics.

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Korg, the fighter size comparison is missing arguably the three most famous fighters of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire, the Messerschmitt Me109, and the Misterbishi Zero.

I didn't realise the CF-105 Arrow was so big.

I've seen the Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 at the Solent Sky museum in Southampton. It's more like a whale than a fighter.

What about the Sunderland flying boat and the catalina

Originally Posted by jx2mad

What about the Sunderland flying boat and the catalina

Neither is a fighter nor a helicopter. There is a Short Sandringham (civil version of the Sunderland) flying boat (ex-Ansett) at Solent Sky, too.

Don't stress too much about what got missed out. They have just used pictures (in the same scale) taken from some magazines and a few reference books put out by Temple Press publications if memory serves me right. I'm not sure where they came from originally.

Originally Posted by cripesamighty

Don't stress too much about what got missed out. They have just used pictures (in the same scale) taken from some magazines and a few reference books put out by Temple Press publications if memory serves me right. I'm not sure where they came from originally.

Quite possibly. The Avia S.99 is really the Messershmitt Bf109G and the S.92 is the Messerschmitt Me262. The diagram has the Me262 wrongly labelled as an S.99. The S.199 was also a Bf109 derivative.

There used to be (may still be) an Me262 in the Australian War Memorial.

Originally Posted by p38arover

There used to be (may still be) an Me262 in the Australian War Memorial.

pretty sure its still there.


beautiful plane.
when i win the lotty im going to buy one and restore it to flying condition.

Originally Posted by Eevo

pretty sure its still there.


beautiful plane.
when i win the lotty im going to buy one and restore it to flying condition.

I somehow suspect there are very few still in existence, so a lottery win may not cut it. And even fewer restorable engines. (According to Wikipedia, eleven planes exist, one being restored to flying condition)

I can think of a lot of planes I would get first, although it does hold the position of the first jet aircraft to actually be used in combat.

John